`THE SERUM CONCENTRATION OF PENICILLIN
`RABBITS, AND MEN AFTER ITS INTRAMUSCULAR
`INJECTION IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
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`HARRY EAGLE, RALPH FLEISCHMAN, AND A. D. MUSSELMAN
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`Laboratory of Experimental Therapeutics of the U. S. Public Health Service and the Johns
`Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore 5, Maryland
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`Received for publication October 13, 1948
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`The serum levels of penicillin G in man after its intramuscular injection in
`aqueous solution or peanut—oil-beeswax suspension have been described in a pre-
`ceding paper (Tucker and Eagle, 1948). Similar data are here reported with
`respect to the plasma levels afiorded by the intramuscular injection of aqueous
`penicillin G in mice and rabbits.
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`METHODS AND MATERIALS
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`The solutions were injected intramuscularly into the thigh, in a volume of 1 ml
`per kg in rabbits, and in 0.2-m1 volume in mice.
`In the latter species the injec-
`tion was partially subcutaneous, because of leakage from the muscle into the sur-
`rounding tissues. The courtesy of the manufacturers in supplying the penicillin
`G used in these studies (Squibb lot numbers V-31, CRA214-20, and 17579, and
`Commercial Solvents lot number 46042605) is gratefully acknowledged.
`The method of assay was a serial dilution technique in which inhibition of
`hemolysis by the 0-203 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes was the end point (Ram-
`melkamp, 1942; Kirby and Rantz, 1944). The details of the method have been
`given elsewhere (Eagle and Newman, 1947).
`In the assays of human and rabbit
`serum, the data have been corrected for the inhibitory effect of serum in the assay
`(Eagle, 1947a,b; Tompsett, Schultz, and McDermott, 1947a,b), using the cor-
`rective factors as experimentally determined for human serum (Eagle and
`Tucker, 1948) and since found to be valid also for rabbit serum. No corrective
`factors have been applied to the mouse data. The values in which, because of
`the high concentration of serum in the indicator tube, that correction would
`probably have been significant are indicated in the tables.
`It is a pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness to Mr. Nathan Mantel, of the
`Oflice of Statistical Coordinator, Division of Public Health Methods, for his
`assistance in the calculation of the probable errors of the median serum levels.
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`EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
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`Figure 1 and the first section of table 1, showing the results obtained in man,
`are here reproduced in modified form1 from a previous paper (Tucker and Eagle,
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`fluid over which the penicillin is initially distributed, or in the rate of that dis-
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`After the initial period of rapid absorption, the blood levels fell off rapidly.
`rabbits this rate of decrease averaged 65 per cent each hour, so that the residual
`serum concentration at time t was k X 0.35‘, in which t is the time in hours over
`the period of experimental observation, and k is a constant determined by the
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`by its initial distribution and back into the blood.
`The serum concentrations provided by a given dose of penicillin were usually
`3 to 5 times higher in man than they were in rabbits similarly injected. Al-
`though the concentrations in rabbits and mice began at the same level, they
`rapidly diverged because of the faster disappearance of penicillin in mice. These
`species differences are illustrated for a single dosage of penicillin in figure 5.
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`In the therapeutic use of penicillin, one of the most important single factors is
`the length of time for which the tissue levels of penicillin remain at efi'ectively
`bactericidal levels. When the three species were compared on this basis (figure
`6), a given serum level was sustained approximately 50 per cent longer in man
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`1 and 2, the data in this figure have not been corrected for the inhibitory efl'ect of serum in
`the assay. That would robably have been significant only for the two values indicated
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`approximately 3 times longer in rabbits than they were in mice because of the
`faster rate of fall in the latter species. Thus, as is indicated in figure 6, a dose of
`0.6 mg per kg provided serum levels in excess of, e.g., 0.1 microgram per ml for
`0.5, 1.4, and 2.3 hours in mice, rabbits, and men, respectively; and after a dose
`of 10 mg per kg the corresponding time periods were 1.4, 3.9, and 6.6 hours.
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`order to prolong by 1 hour the time for which this level of 0.1 microgram per ml
`would be maintained in the serum, the dosage of penicillin would have to be
`approximately doubled in man, and multiplied approximately 3-fold in rabbits,
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`whereas a 5- to 20-fold increase would be necessary in mice, depending on the
`dosage range (figure 6).
`The factors responsible for the relatively rapid disappearance of penicillin
`from mouse blood are as yet unknown. An important consideration may be the
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`renal clearance of penicillin, which in this species may be higher relative to body
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`SUMMARY
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`Data are given for the median serum concentrations of penicillin G after its
`intramuscular injection in aqueous solution in men, rabbits, and mice at doses of
`0.6, 1 (1.5), 3, 10, 60, and 200 mg per kg. For equal doses of penicillin the serum
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`in mice or rabbits, indicative of a signifith species difl'erence in the initial dis-
`tribution of the drug in the body fluids.
`Thereafter, penicillin disappeared from the serum of rabbits at the rate of 65
`per cent an hour, and somewhat faster in man.
`In mice, however, it fell off at a
`much faster initial rate, varying between 91 and 99 per cent an hour.
`In consequence of these differences in the initial distribution of penicillin and ‘
`its subsequent rate of disappearance from the serum, the time for which a given
`dosage of penicillin provided a measurable serum concentration was in the order
`1 :3 :4% in mouse, rabbit, and man, respectively.
`To prolong a given serum level by 1 hour would require approximately a 2-fold
`increase in dosage in man, a 3-fold increase in rabbit, but a 5- to 20-fold increase
`in mice.
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